"If Paulus's army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces against Paulus and against the southern front, where I had only two Romanian armies. Therefore, the resistance of the Sixth German Army, even to the death of the last man, was necessary."

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Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

Erich von Manstein

#Army Quotes #Men Quotes #Two Quotes

“We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole.”
“Horoscopes, like bad sitcoms, are created for people that I don't relate to.”
“Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.”
“What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.”
“Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.”

Source : Norman Ernest Borlaug (1971). “Mankind and Civilization at Another Crossroad”
“What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.”
“Your allegiance is with your spouse; you cannot break that by showing allegiance to your ex-spouse.”
“The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.”

Source : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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